Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Sunday has informed that 4,009 people are currently hospitalised with 21 per cent in the ICU. US is setting records in different scenarios, Los Angeles County the most populous in the US has now set a new record of Covid-19 hospitalizations for a fourth consecutive day with over 10,000 new cases.
The Sunday's figure 4009 broke the previous record. The previous record was 3850 people being hospitalised. The Los Angeles county department reported 12,731 new cases and 29 fatalities in the last 24 hours, bringing the tally of new infections to 525,486 and 8,298 related deaths. Earlier on December 7, hospitalizations were 2,988, Los Angeles County Health Director Barbara Ferrer warned that the figure could climb to 4,000 within two weeks but the toll reached within six days.
Haig Aintablian, a senior physician with the University of California Los Angeles Emergency Medicine program, was quoted by the local news channel as saying that the current situation was the worst he had seen for hospital systems in the county and local hospitals were "almost at a critical point". "1 in 100 people in LA County are currently infected with Covid-19. Don't gather and wear your face covering whenever you are outside your house," the Department of Public Health tweeted on Sunday night. To the 145 distribution centres the first shipments of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine left Michigan early Sunday in the US and was scheduled to arrived Los Angeles County on Monday, local authorities repeatedly warned residents to wear mask.
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